Gracie Fields

Dame Gracie Fields DBE OStJ (nama lahir Grace Stansfield; 9 Januari 1898 – 27 September 1979) adalah seorang pemeran, penyanyi, pelawak serta bintang sinema dan balai musik asal Britania Raya yang menjadi salah satu dari sepuuh bintang film papan atas di Inggris pada 1930an dan bintang film berbayaran tertinggi di dunia pada 1937. Ia diangkat menjadi Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) dan Officer of the Venerable Order of St John (OStJ) pada 1938, serta Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) pada 1979.

Dame Gracie Fields DBE OStJ
Lahir	Grace Stansfield (1898-01-09)9 Januari 1898 Rochdale, Lancashire, Inggris
Meninggal	27 September 1979(1979-09-27) (umur 81) La Canzone Del Mare, Capri, Italia
Kebangsaan	Britania Raya
Pekerjaan	Pemeran Penyanyi
Tahun aktif	1924–1979
Suami/istri	Archie Pitt ​ ​ (m. 1923; bercerai 1939)​ Monty Banks ​ ​ (m. 1940; kematiannya 1950)​ Boris Alperovici ​ (m. 1952)​
Penghargaan (1979) Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (en) (1938) Officer of the Order of Saint John (en) star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (en)

Sumber

• Fields, Gracie (1960). Sing As We Go. London: Frederick Muller Limited. hlm. 1–228. ISBN 1245763555. 
• Lassandro, Sebastian (2019). Pride of Our Alley, vol 1 and 2. Bear Manor Media.
• Lassandro, Sebastian (2020). Gracie's War. Independently published.
• Gracie Fields: The Authorised Biography (1995) by David Bret
• "Gracie Fields" by Jeffrey Richards in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Bacaan tambahan

• Cullen, Frank; Hackman, Florence; McNeilly, Donald (2007), "Gracie Fields", Vaudeville, old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performers in America, Vol.1, New York: Routledge Press, hlm. 380–383, ISBN 978-0-415-93853-2, diakses tanggal 2 September 2010 – via Google Books 
• "Gracie Fields: English comedienne mugs and sings", Life: 124, 126, 21 December 1942, diakses tanggal 2 September 2010 – via Google Books 
• Hunter, Jefferson (2010), English Filming, English Writing, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-35443-3, diakses tanggal 2 September 2010 – via Google Books  – Paperback ISBN 978-0-253-22177-3
• Johnston, Sheila M.F. (2001), "London Little Theatre Era: Gracie Fields", Let's go to the Grand!: 100 years of entertainment at London's Grand Theatre, Toronto, Canada: Natural Heritage/Natural History Inc, hlm. 95–96, ISBN 1-896219-75-6, diakses tanggal 2 September 2010 – via Google Books 
• Joyce, Patrick (1994), Visions of the people: industrial England and the question of class 1848–1914, Cambridge, New York: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, hlm. 215–219, 318–320, ISBN 0-521-37152-X, diakses tanggal 2 September 2010 – via Google Books  (First published 1991)
• Landy, Marcia (2001), "The extraordinary ordinariness of Gracie Fields: the anatomy of a British film star", dalam Babington, Bruce, British Stars and Stardom: From Alma Taylor to Sean Connery, Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, hlm. 56–67, ISBN 0-7190-5840-6, diakses tanggal 2 September 2010 – via Google Books  – Paperback ISBN 0-7190-5841-4
• Scannell, Paddy (1996), Radio, television, and modern life: a phenomenological approach, Oxford, UK & Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, hlm. 65, 72, ISBN 0-631-19874-1, diakses tanggal 2 September 2010 – via Google Books  – Paperback ISBN 0-631-19875-X. Digitalised 2002
• Slide, Anthony (1985), "Sing As We Go", Fifty classic British films, 1932–1982: a pictorial record, General Publishing Co., Canada; and Constable & Co, UK, hlm. 16–18, ISBN 0-486-24860-7, diakses tanggal 2 September 2010 – via Google Books 
• Shafer, Stephen C (1997), British popular films, 1929–1939: the cinema of reassurance, London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-00282-6, diakses tanggal 2 September 2010 – via Google Books 
• Short, Ernest Henry; Compton Rickett, Arthur (1970), Ring up the curtain: being a pageant of English entertainment covering half a century, Freeport, N.Y: Books for Libraries Press, ISBN 0-8369-5299-5, diakses tanggal 2 September 2010 – via Google Books  (First published 1938)

Pranala luar

• Gracie Fields di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
• Gracie Fields di Screenonline British Film Institute
• The Official Dame Gracie Fields website
• Gracie Fields at Turner Classic Movies
• Gracie Fields: A Biography by Joan Moules
• Gracie Fields' appearance on This Is Your Life
• Photographs and literature
• Nine digitally restored Gracie Fields recordings
• Gracie Fields and Thomas Thompson
• Gracie Fields interview on Parkinson, 05/11/1977
• "The Gracie Fields Show". RadioEchoes. 1944.